Anna Pajak is a painter and printmaker. Her starting point is often a bodily sensation translated into the visual. In her works she explores geometrical spaces and architectural elements such as surfaces, patterns, and depths. Pajak merges color, symbols, and perspectives into a visionary imagery where the abstract meets the figurative. Drawing from modernist female painters, spiritualism, and dreams, Pajak deconstructs and recombines symbols, images, shapes, and architectural fragments in ways that challenge traditional contexts and interpretations. Her large-scale paintings bring a sense of another dimension to life - a reality on the border to dream and fiction.
Anna Pajak (b. 1992) holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, graduating in 2020. Pajak is represented by Wetterling Gallery and her work has been exhibited in galleries and institutional contexts across Sweden, Norway, and Germany, including Gävle Konstcentrum (Gävle), Alma Löv Museum of Unexp. Art (Östra Ämtervik), QSPA Gallery (Oslo), Stene Projects (Stockholm), Kunstverket Galleri (Oslo), and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, among others. Pajak has been the recipient of grants and awards, including those from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2021, 2023, 2025), the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (2019, 2020), and the Ann-Margret Lindell Printmaking Grant (2025). In 2023, she unveiled a large-scale public artwork in Hagastaden, Stockholm.
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Jury statement:
Anna Pajak intermittently uses printmaking techniques, painting and text to inform her practice, drawing on the modernist esoteric movement to connect to a feminist take on image making and text production.
The jury is impressed by the artist’s spatial and geometrical explorations, the examination of surface, patterns, and depths; the way in which the formal language in her printmaking and painting interconnect, mutually informing one another. Colour and symbols, perspectives and imagery merge into almost futuristic entities where the abstract meets the figurative, and where the feminist spiritualist approach is re-forged into a contemporary language.
The Queen Sonja Art Foundation congratulates Anna Pajak on the QSPA Inspirational Award of 2020.
